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08-09-2017, 02:33 PM | #31 |
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Ha ha never been to jail but I more or less work at one at a state institution and they let me out every day
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08-09-2017, 02:34 PM | #32 |
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08-09-2017, 03:11 PM | #33 |
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As a county Sheriff's Deputy, I would say a quarter of our lobby walk-ins have to do with scams very similar to this. We had a PayPal scam recently in which several elderly people fell for. Essentially, the guy on the other line told them that they had a warrant for their arrest due to skipping jury duty, and they would need to send 500 dollars worth of PayPal credit cards to a specific address in order to clear the warrant.
The problem being, the address listed was out of country, and the phone numbers used were throwaway track phones. It's so hard not to ask some of the older women, "was it not suspicious that an out of country man with a Middle Eastern accent had the power to remove an active warrant via PayPal money?" It really is sad how vulnerable old people can be when it comes to scams like that. Don't even get me started on Facebook phishing. |
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08-09-2017, 03:16 PM | #34 |
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i m relly gud at killin but spelin aint gud at.
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08-09-2017, 03:17 PM | #35 |
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08-09-2017, 03:21 PM | #36 |
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I wonder if the spelling and grammar is how they get around spam filters. Maybe shuffling typos prevents a program monitoring for a large volume of identical emails. Just a guess.
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08-09-2017, 03:25 PM | #37 |
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I'm willing to guess that it has more to do with not knowing English than spam filters.
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08-09-2017, 03:41 PM | #38 | |
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08-09-2017, 03:44 PM | #39 |
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It's an obvious scam! Anyone who knows me well enough to want me dead knows I ain't got $20k laying around!
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08-09-2017, 03:50 PM | #40 |
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I read something once that concluded that the only people gullible enough to fall for these things are further convinced that they're real because of typos. Apparently gullible people believe that a large-scale scam would be carefully proofread beforehand, whereas the plea of a dying princess is going to be written under duress. It's actually kind of logical when you think about it.
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08-09-2017, 04:18 PM | #42 |
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There is a Craigslist one where cars are listed way below value and when you contact them they give a sob story about why they want to get rid of it fast and cheap. They then say ebay is handling the transaction to give it credence and will deliver the car to you after you pay like $500 in PayPal gift cards. I'm sure people fall for it all the time.
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